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First off, demoed this at GenCon Saturday and loved it, so I made sure to be one of the first in line for an early copy Sunday.

We played it with our gaming group tonight and a question came up.
In the rules, it explicitly states only 3 players can bid 0 for turn order, but what if this situation arises:
In a 4 player game, the first 3 players bid 0 and the fourth player doesn't have any gold coins to bid with, what happens?
This seems unlikely to come up, but on the off chance it does, I want to be prepared.

In a 4 player game, the first 3 players bid 0 and the fourth player doesn't have any gold coins to bid with, what happens?
This seems unlikely to come up, but on the off chance it does, I want to be prepared.

This is HIGHLY unlikely indeed!

Bruno Cathala, the game designer, played hundreds of games and it never happened. We @DoW played numerous games as well; plus we explained the game on different conventions (GenCon Indy, Paris est Ludique) and never saw a game where this situation occured.

It is a theoretical possible situation, I'll give you that, but IRL it simply does not happen, so I wouldn't bother about that. IF it prevents you from sleeping though, that situation would be ruled as follows:
1° Force the broke player to sell a card (even if he should have done it on the previous turn) to collect 1 coin that he must immediately spend;
2° If that player has no card, he suffers a -1 penalty on his final score.

But again I highly doubt that you will ever need that rule. If you do, let us know.